Applicability of the ISO 14001 environmental managemen system standard to Manitoba hydro
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The aim of this thesis was to study and document the process and effects of applying, or conforming an Environmental Management System (EMS) to the international ISO 14001 EMS Standard in general, and more specifically, for an integrated electric utility such as Manitoba Hydro. In addition, an environmental management software package was evaluated, to determine its usefulness as a tool in developing, implementing and managing the above mentioned EMS. An overview of environmental charters/guidelines, industrial initiatives and other EMS systems is presented to illustrate their roles in the eventual creation of the ISO 14000 series of environmental management standards. ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems - Specification with guidance for use is the fundamental part of the ISO 14000 series of environmental management standards. It defines a systematic process, by which organizations can identify and manage their environmental responsibilities and commitments, and may be objectively verified as evidence of their commitment should they so choose. ISO 14004 is a guidance document created to assist in implementing the ISO 14001 standard. Three auditing standards, that may be used with ISO 14001 are also discussed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".